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The Skeptics Guide #926 - Apr 8 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The History of the Industrial Revolution

He was like the Leonardo da Vinci of his time. And you think, well, how did we not have the industrial revolution 2000 years ago? Yeah. They were in use. It just, you know, didn't get generalized. So he invented a mechanical theater that would like automatically run like a puppetry plate for 10 minutes. He made a force pump that you could use like as a fire engine. A fountain that operated on hydrostatic energy called the heron's fountain. The first vending machine which dispense a predetermined amount of holy water and then stop.

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